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Are you hearing a nasty screech when you press the brake pedal in your car? Does it sound like rock monsters are playing the world’s loudest frame of bowling every time you need to slow down? Well, it may be time to change your brakes. Here’s how.
Your engine’s timing belt is the most important maintenance item in your car. What happens when this component gives up the ghost, and how hard is it to fix by yourself?
For those not living in New Jersey, pumping your own gas is a reality that you must accept whether you like it or not - but as millions of people perform this mundane act every single day, there are bound to be at least a few screw-ups. So what really happens when you mistakenly pour diesel into your gas-powered car’s tank?
Before Lamborghini made cars with angles sharper than Wendy’s twitter responses, the Italian automaker made cars that were unquestionably timeless works of art. With examples of Lambo’s vintage roots becoming harder to come by, cars like the ones for sale by comedian Adam Carolla should light fires under the asses of any gearhead with a big enough bank account.
Ford just released pictures of their new Ford GT Competition Series, a lightweight, track-focused version of their already bonkers supercar, and it looks every bit as purposeful and menacing as it should to sway the minds and wallets of the fickle supercar buying public.
The new Ford GT, America’s most anticipated new supercar, has just become a contender in the lightweight super-exclusive market that has, until now, been dominated by the likes of the Porsche, Ferrari, and Lamborghini. And from the looks of things, the competition has a lot to be afraid of.
Sharing a bond with an automobile can be a beautiful thing, but it’s not all jellybean raindrops and unicorn farts. Sometimes it straight up sucks to be the person that takes an interest in cars. My question to you is, what’s the worst thing about being car-obsessed?
Cars don’t have to make sense to everyone, but at some point they have to make sense to at least someone.
Have you ever had a wish so improbable that merely mentioning it to people would get you weird looks and at-you-not-with-you laughter? Well, come on in, because at the risk of me being scarred for life by the comments, I’m curious to know what your wildest, most unrealistic automotive fantasies are.
An unwritten rule in car culture dictates that in order for a car to be truly remarkable, it has to have forgivable character flaws that give it a unique personality that allows man to truly bond with tamed machine. It is exactly those traits that make this car, the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, the best used exotic car value on Earth.
When automakers get desperate to satiate the car buying public, they sometimes take chances on unconventional models that are great in their own right. However, sometimes they just create automotive monstrosities that serve only as thinly veiled tax write-offs. Your challenge this week is to find the latter - those pointless fool’s gold nuggets in the automotive coal mine known as eBay. Good luck.
In the used car market there are automotive bargains, and then there are cars priced so heavily out of anyone’s comfort zone that you wonder if they’re really trying to sell the car at all, or just look like they are to placate a furious partner who wants their garage back.
Sometimes those sleep deprived, middle-of-the-night Craigslist spelunking sessions end in the discovery of a true unicorn—something that appears to be perfect and pristine on the outside, an ideal fit for your garage and your dreams. But even if you hit on such a vehicle, it can hide dark secrets within. This was one of those times.
It’s one thing to know where bargains sleep at night, but it’s another to realize that there is no logical reason why a car still commands most of its asking price ten years down the line, despite not actually being very good. This week, your challenge is to find the most hilariously overpriced cars on eBay. This should be good.
Wrenching on cars as a hobby requires that you come to terms with the fact that unless you’re Tony Stark, you won’t have equipment that matches your ambition. However, spending the equivalent of a used Honda Civic on one piece of kit can bring you one hell of a lot closer to being the master tinkerer you always dreamed of being.
When the paycheck can’t come fast enough, it’s good to know that the cheap cars we drive won’t give up the ghost and destroy whatever hope we had of making ends meet. That’s why I asked you cheap bastards to choose the most reliable cars for less than a $2,000 on eBay, and to be honest, I couldn’t have done any better if I tried. Bravo.
The concept of a free lunch is an impossibility in nature. You need to put energy into a system to see it come out. However, used Porsche 911 prices, as we all know, don’t obey things like the laws of physics, and therefore sometimes present the market with world-beating cars for the equivalent of loaded minivan money. It ain’t free, but it’s close enough.
For those of you who complain that rental car kiosks no longer offer anything more interesting than soon-to-be salvage titled Corvettes, I present you with this flamethrowing 1967 Pontiac GTO, used in the upcoming film, XXX: Return of Xander Cage, offered by Turo.
Face it, sometimes you just need adequate transportation that will get you to where you need to go without blowing the hell up and making you regret not taking an Uber. That’s why this week, it is your duty to find the most reliable cars on eBay for under a measly $2,000 budget. I’m not sure this is even possible.
It should come as no surprise that the purchase price of an exotic automobile is just the start of its inevitable rampage on your wallet. It’s important to have a sizable source of funds or a great insurance policy in case shit runs downhill at an alarming rate. Here’s what happens when you have neither.
For those following the economy, you’ll likely have noticed a steady trend towards a general market downturn. Having said that, I asked you forward-thinking bunch to find the exotics that would once again be affordable to those smart enough to convert their money into Bitcoin before everyone’s 401k got flushed down the toilet. Here are the ten best. Brace yourselves.
Donald Trump, polarizing showman that he is, proved that he won’t wait until inauguration day to start his politically charged quest to Make America Great Again, whatever that means. However, political optics aside, his interventions and deals with large companies, and car companies in particular, are scaring the shit out of me.
The internet is arguably a place where weird things go to multiply, and Reddit is the sticky epicenter of all that untamed cringe. Here’s what happens when a subreddit is unleashed on my cheaply bought Aston Martin V8 Vantage for Regular Car Reviews.
Those eyeing the used car market for the past few years will have seen a sharp increase in the prices of some otherwise unloved exotics. However, nothing is forever, and with the Federal Reserve’s upcoming interest rate hike, it’s all but a certainty that the market will take a dump harder than the aftermath of Taco Tuesday. Your eBay challenge this week is to find the exotics that will become affordable after the rich are forced to eat their shoes.
If you’re like me and commit yourself body, mind and soul to the uncaring void that is the internet, you’ll have known that two of the biggest automotive YouTube channels came together for a budget build-off using Craigslist and whatever local connections they could exploit. However, for those that haven’t watched the epic collaboration, I’ll spoil it for you by saying that Mighty Car Mods got their asses handed to them.
Every time your hired Uber driver pulls up in a 250,000 mile Prius on its last legs, you die a little inside. That’s why I asked you ride-hailing fools for suggestions on the best cars that would qualify for Uber, under a $25,000 budget on eBay, and it literally brought a tear to my eye. Not really, but anything’s better than a Prius.
Ever since Tesla’s range of cars made it possible to do updates over the air, we’ve all been wondering what the company who invented Ludicrous mode would slot into their cars as unlockable Easter eggs. Today, we might finally have an answer, and it’s the most amazing thing I’ve personally ever seen a Tesla do.
